Genetic dissection of serum vaspin highlights its causal role in lipid metabolism.
Jana BreitfeldKatrin HornDiana Le DucAkhil VelluvaCarola MarziHarald GrallertNele FriedrichMaik PietznerUwe VölkerHenry VölzkeEmma AhlqvistDina Mansour AlyTiinamaija TuomiRonny BaberJürgen KratzschJoachim ThieryBerend IsermannMarkus LoefflerNora KlötingMatthias BlüherMichael StumvollJohn T HeikerAnke TönjesMarkus ScholzPeter KovacsPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2023)
The data show that serum vaspin is strongly determined by genetic variants within vaspin, which further highlight vaspin's causal role in lipid metabolism.